ASIS&T membership survey 2008: Responses from ASIS&T members

As the ASIS&T Board of Directors began investigating the feasibility of making the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) an open access journal, they and the journal's current publisher, Wiley-Blackwell, decided to survey current ASIS&T members, current JASIST authors and researchers in the broader field of information science about the notion of open access. In late 2007, a survey developed jointly by ASIS&T and Wiley-Blackwell was distributed to a randomly selected group of 2,414 ASIS&T members. Not surprisingly, the majority of ASIS&T members that responded to the survey are from North America (84%). Nearly 64% of ASIS&T members are affiliated with a college or university.